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(Eastwood) Pizza Party with Young Adult author Peadar O’Guilin Schuler favorite Peadar O’Guilin is visiting the States from Ireland, and making a special stop up to our Lansing store for a pizza party to celebrate his gripping dystopian thrillers! Our store topped sales nationwide for Peadar’s debut novel The Inferior, and our fan flag is waving just as high for his follow-up The Deserter! With echoes of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, and The Truman Show, Peadar Ó Guilín’s books are action—and idea-packed—blockbusters that will challenge your perceptions of humanity and leave you hungry for more.

Join us for an online web chat with one of the most exciting young adult sci-fi authors to debut recently.

Peadar (pronounced Pah-der) has enchanted the imagination of Schuler booksellers with his debut young adult sci-fi/fantasy thriller The Inferior. In this first book of a future trilogy, Peadar crafts a brutal landscape where there is but one law: Eat or Be Eaten. In the futuristic novel, young Stopmouth and his family know of no other way-of-life than the daily battle to survive. The rules of The Tribe are simple: eat or be eaten. It is a harsh and savage world where only the strong and able-bodied survive; the weak and disabled have no choice but to be “volunteered” for their demise. Despite Stopmouth’s flaw, his stutter, and his dominant older brother, he is a hero in a world of cannibalism and flesh trade among various intelligent species. When The Tribe’s rivals form an unprecedented alliance, and Stopmouth meets Indrani, the mysterious woman who suddenly appears from the high tech civilization of the Roof overhead, life as he knows it is changed forever.

The Inferior is a bone-chilling debut novel, brimming with action and gore that will challenge readers’ perceptions of humanity and leave them hungry for more.

Peadar Ó Guilín is a debut young adult author who earned his BA in French and Italian from University College Galway and his MA in Italian Language and Literature from University College Dublin. He has written numerous plays and short stories for adults, and has performed as a standup comedian. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. (maude313)… (more)

In September 2007, Peadar Ó Guilín published his first novel, The Inferior, which the Times Educational Supplement called "a stark, dark tale, written with great energy and confidence and some arresting reflections on human nature." Foreign editors liked it too, and over the coming year it is to be translated into seven languages, including Japanese and Korean.

His fantasy and SF short stories have appeared in numerous venues, including Black Gate magazine and an anthology celebrating the best of the iconic Weird Tales. He is currently working on a sequel to his first novel and a comic about a secretive elephant.

Peadar lives in Dublin, where he toils day and night for a giant computer corporation.